[Slayer] Book review 2024

[towncel]

philosophical works of 2024 (ordered by date of reading, earliest first):

• essays and aphorisms (schopenhauer) - 6/10. amusing and interesting.
  
• tao te ching - 5/10. interesting.
  
• jonathan livingston seagull - 2/10. embarrassing.
  
• ralph waldo emerson's 1st and 2nd essays - 3/10. lost some respect for nietzsche while reading.
  
• walden and other writings - 3/10. repulsive, naive, uncritical personality, entirely removed from the 'nature' he claims to love.
  
• discourse on metaphysics and the mondaology - 2/10. ramblings of a sanguine, uncritical mind; a mind unsuited for philosophy.
  
• tractatus logico-philosophicus - 5/10. partly interesting, partly tedious.
  
• manfred (byron) - 3/10. lost some more respect for nietzsche.
  
• candide - 4/10. unnecessarily prolonged.
  
• the gay science - 8.5/10. extremely interesting, varied, undogmatic, original, playful, critical. considerably different atmosphere than later works.
  
• genealogy of morals, and beyond good and evil - 8/10. second reading. still as interesting as the first time i read them.
  
• the wisdom of life (schopenhauer) - 3/10. undisciplined ramblings. offers naive advice, while pretending the opposite.
  
• enquiries concerning human understanding - 5/10. interesting, but proved to be much less interesting than the first time i read it.
  
• enquiries concerning the principles of morals - 3/10. dull, weak, sentimental argumentation. still, a couple interesting sections.
  

of the novels i've read, the 3 best were:

1. middlemarch
   
2. the red and the black
   
3. ulysses
   

confessions of an english opium eater was the worst book of the year, and lyrical ballads and other poems (wordsworth & coleridge) was enough to convince me that i despise pretty much everything about the romantic movement

Manfred - 5.5/10. (read in 2022) Nice insights. Dimwit author thinks he's smart for describing a mountainside and writing SUPER GENERIC edgy stuff, this book was kind of like the rick & morty (seasons 1 - 3) of it's time just less enjoyable.
On the Genealogy of Morality - 7/10. (read in 2019) Extreme sophistry is contained in it near the end but it’s okay. It’s extremely epic it’s sort of like reading a stunning fiction book. Obviously not during the boring parts, but it’s amazing in terms of the peaks.

Beyond Good & Evil getting the same rating shows you're either a troll or just not really capable of appreciating stuff "currently." This is the furthest thing away from a comparison.

Can't wait to read aristophanes to utterly lose respect for Nietzsche. The gay science will still potentially be the best book out there (I've read the opening after the dogshit introductory poetry, 7-8 aphorisms after that and one long generic-sounding one from randomly browsing the 4th book) but I'll lose respect for Nietzsche horribly.

The only worse book recommendations I can think of are recommending cioran, spinoza and henri.

Wonder what you would think of the tale of genji and process and reality.